![]() ![]() The Royal Navy retained three of its battlecruisers, each of which would have no difficulty catching and destroying the German ships. Alas, the concept behind the pocket battleships went the way of all technology. Within these constraints, the pocket battleships were effective ships. The pocket battleships were designed as commerce raiders, not as mainline units, but could still outfight enemy heavy cruisers. ![]() ![]() Presented with this problem, German engineers developed a novel solution: they designed the pocket battleships, warships of relatively small size (twelve thousand tons or so, pushing treaty limits), with relatively heavy armaments (two triple eleven-inch turrets) that could outrun or outgun any potential foe. 19FortyFive publishes original videos every day.) The Germans could keep (and replace) pre-dreadnought vessels of ten thousand tons or less, roughly the size of a heavy cruiser in most navies. The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. ![]()
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